Week In Week Out - The Railway Blues

A look at the topical issues affecting Wales. Britain's leading writer on rail, Christian Wolmar, takes a return trip from Paddington to Wales to examine the state of the country's railways. For a decade First Great Western have run trains on Brunel's famous old line - and now the company is in danger of losing its franchise. But in this, the 60th anniversary year of rail nationalisation, Wolmar asks who should really take the blame for such expensive tickets and, all too often, our late and overcrowded trains?